III is the third studio album by American indie rock band Shiny Toy Guns. It was released on October 22, 2012, by Five Seven Music. The album features the return of the band's original female vocalist, Carah Faye Charnow.[5] The album spawned three singles: "Waiting Alone", "Fading Listening", and "Somewhere to Hide".

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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves

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Shiny Toy Guns
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Shiny Toy Guns is an American rock band that formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. They released their first studio album We Are Pilots in 2006 and it featured three singles that peaked inside the top 30 in the Alternative Songs Chart. We Are Pilots was nominated for a Grammy Award and their second album Season of Poison was released in 2008 and featured two singles that peaked inside the top 30 in the Alternative Songs Chart. The band was founded in 2002 by bassist and keyboardist, Jeremy Dawson, both had known each other for years growing up in Shawnee, Oklahoma and worked together on previous music projects such as Cloud2Ground and Slyder. Shiny Toy Guns gained popularity in California and on the internet through networking on their MySpace page, in January 2005, they released their first album We Are Pilots through the record company Stormwest International. That summer they toured the United States in support of their album and we Are Pilots was re-recorded and re-released with a revised track list through record company SideCho in November 2005. The band signed with Universal Records in June 2006 and released a third, Le Disko was the first single, You Are the One was the second single, and Rainy Monday was the third. However, Dont Cry Out was originally announced to be the third single, on October 29,2007, the band appeared as The Shinys on the childrens television series Yo Gabba Gabba. They performed a sequence called The House of Spooks and we Are Pilots received a Grammy Award nomination on December 6,2007 in the category of Best Electronic/Dance Album, but lost to The Chemical Brothers. In August 2008, it was revealed that Carah Faye Charnow was no part of the band and had been replaced by Sisely Treasure, whose vocals are featured on the bands second album. Carah Faye Charnow went on to pursue a new band, Versant, Season of Poison was released through Universal Records on November 4,2008. On September 2,2008, Ricochet. was released as the first single and it hit No.17 on the Alternative Songs Chart, which is the highest the band has ever reached with a single on the Alternative Songs chart. Shiny Toy Guns released their second Season of Poison single, Ghost Town, on January 30,2009, in February 2009, the band introduced their Fancorps Street Team as a way for their fans to become more involved with the band. In March, the released their first animated video for their single. The animation was completed by well known illustrator, Glen Hanson, at the end of March 2009, the band performed a cover of Peter Schillings Major Tom. Initially used in a commercial for the 2010 Lincoln MKZ. In September, the band covered Blue Öyster Cults Burnin for You for another Lincoln commercial advertising the 2010 Lincoln MKS, during the spring, at a show in Milwaukee, Shiny Toy Guns said their next album would drop sometime in late 2010. On December 15,2009, the remix album Girls Le Disko was released on Ultra Records, near the end of January 2010, Rocketship 2010 was released as a Myspace download featured on Coca Colas Formula for Happiness free weekly download

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Synth-pop
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Synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestras success opened the way for bands such as P-Model, Plastics. The development of polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI. This, its adoption by the acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV. Synth-pop is sometimes deployed interchangeably with electropop, but electropop may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places emphasis on a harder. In the late 1980s duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was successful on the US dance-charts. Some artists and bands were criticised for gender bending, Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have described the genre as diverse but, many synth-pop musicians had limited musical skills, relying on the technology to produce or reproduce the music. The result was often minimalist, with grooves that were woven together from simple repeated riffs often with no harmonic progression to speak of. Early synth-pop has been described as eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing, using droning electronics with little change in inflection, common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras, thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism. According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synth-pop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Later synth-pop saw a shift to a style influenced by other genres. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, the portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes

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New wave music
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New wave is a genre of rock music popular from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with ties to 1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from smooth blues and rock and roll sounds to create pop music that incorporated electronic and experimental music, mod, initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including synth-pop, college rock, common characteristics of new wave music include the use of synthesizers and electronic productions, the importance of styling and the arts, as well as diversity. In the mid-1980s, differences between new wave and other genres began to blur. New wave has enjoyed resurgences since the 1990s, after a rising nostalgia for several new wave-influenced artists, subsequently, the genre influenced other genres. During the 2000s, a number of acts explored new wave and post-punk influences, such as the Strokes, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and these acts were sometimes labeled new wave of new wave. The catch-all nature of new music has been a source of much confusion. The 1985 discography Whos New Wave in Music listed artists in over 130 separate categories, the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock calls the term virtually meaningless, while AllMusic mentions stylistic diversity. New wave first emerged as a genre in the early 1970s, used by critics including Nick Kent and Dave Marsh to classify such New York-based groups as the Velvet Underground. It gained currency beginning in 1976 when it appeared in UK punk fanzines such as Sniffin Glue and newsagent music weeklies such as Melody Maker and New Musical Express. In November 1976 Caroline Coon used Malcolm McLarens term new wave to designate music by bands not exactly punk, the term was also used in that sense by music journalist Charles Shaar Murray in his comments about the Boomtown Rats. For a period of time in 1976 and 1977, the new wave. By the end of 1977, new wave had replaced punk as the definition for new music in the UK. As radio consultants in the United States had advised their clients that punk rock was a fad, like the filmmakers of the French new wave movement, its new artists were anti-corporate and experimental. At first, most U. S. writers exclusively used the new wave for British punk acts. Music historian Vernon Joynson claimed that new wave emerged in the UK in late 1976, in the U. S. the first new wavers were the not-so-punk acts associated with the New York club CBGB. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, referring to the first show of the band Television at his club in March 1974, said, furthermore, many artists who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed new wave. A1977 Phonogram Records compilation album of the same name features US artists including the Dead Boys, Ramones, Talking Heads, New wave is much more closely tied to punk and came and went more quickly in the United Kingdom than in the United States

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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

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Carah Faye Charnow
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Carah Faye Charnow is an American singer and songwriter. She is currently the female vocalist of the band Shiny Toy Guns, with whom she scored a Grammy nomination, after leaving the band in 2008, she officially returned as a vocalist for Shiny Toy Guns in February 2011. In 2004, Carah joined the indie/rock/electronica band Shiny Toy Guns, the band gained popularity in California as well as through their Myspace page. On October 17,2006, they released their first album, We Are Pilots, after previously recording, the album’s best-known tracks are Le Disko, You Are the One, and Dont Cry Out. On December 6,2007, We Are Pilots received a Grammy Award nomination in the category of Best Electronic/Dance Album, Carah remained the female vocalist of Shiny Toy Guns until she was released in the summer of 2008. After her release from Shiny Toy Guns, Carah started a new band, as of February 11,2011, it was announced at the end of the Shiny Toy Guns countdown timer in a YouTube video that Carah was part of the band again. Her then-husband, Daniel, was also joining, Versant was also quoted on Facebook saying, Boys and Girls, Carah Faye and Daniel Johansson, of your beloved Versant, are joining Shiny Toy Guns for album number three. Please enjoy this piece of music history, here is another announcement, Shiny Toy Guns isnt going ANYWHERE. Carah Faye was featured in the music video of their new single Waiting Alone. The albums third single, Somewhere to Hide, was entirely by Carah. On May 12,2015, Carah received a BMI award for co-writing Stay the Night, performed by Zedd, as of early 2015, Carah is writing and recording a solo album, but assures fans that Shiny Toy Guns is still intact. A release date for the album has yet to be confirmed. Carah is the featured vocalist in the song Where Do We Go in Lindsey Stirlings 2016 album Brave Enough, Carah was born in Santa Barbara and moved to Newbury Park at age 5. She started taking lessons at an early age and sang in a professional show choir called Fresh Chances for America for about four or five years. She has said that her musical influences were Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James and Nancy Sinatra. Carahs earliest muse was her grandfather, Arnold Moselle, a World War II fighting captain who sang in a big band-ish group called The Nightingales. He used to sing lullabies to her including Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole songs, after high school, Carahs dream was to go to New York and attend The Juilliard School. Instead, she went to Moorpark College and did some garage band stuff that didnt go anywhere, through a friend she met Jeremy Dawson, who needed a vocalist to record dummy versions of pop songs he was writing for other artists